Objection Objection! How could you not spend time on the brewtimers, it is one of the amazing things that hooked me on Brewfather. I am fortunate enough to have friends including my back yard neighbor to brew with. We get the tunes going and make a day of it. It is great to have alarms go off allowing me not to pay attention to the clock. But wait those timers do not end with brew day. At a minimum it will remind you via push notifications when bottling day is but that is easy enough. Let us throw into the mix steps involved with fermentation ranging from temp adjustments to dry hops and any other thing you might do. It is great to get these push notifications on your phone and email. To skim over this as if it were nothing is truly an injustice to the power built into the timer.
Been a Brewfather user for a few years and never looked back. Well worth it in my opinion. The more you put into it, the more you get out of it. I'm sure I'll learn a lot as the series moves forward. Thanks for doing these videos!
Ive only been brewing for about 4 months and have been using beersmith the whole time. Im not sure if beersmith has recently added these same features but to me the brewfather seems the same as beersmith. All the same features. Ive been told by lots of people to get into brewfather but wondering if its just a new shiny piece of equipment, Ive noticed that new equipment thats shiny gets lots of homebrews excited to get it even if they already had the same thing previously.
@@mrow7598 you still get all the features, but you're limited to 10 batches I believe. If you exceed this during your trial, at the end of the 30 days your account becomes "read-only" until you delete to get below the 10 recipe limit again.
@@nextech5321 You don't necessarily lose your recipes. You can export them and save on your computer, then delete from cloud Brewfather. Later, you can upload yur offline saved recipe (as long as you remain below the 10 recipe limit).
Same here. It is just leaps above anything else on the market and Thomas from @brewfather is very keen on doing improvements. I mainly interface it with the RAPT line of products from kegland.
Quick recipe tip - the first tag you add is used to sort them. So you can add a style tag on the recipe, and sort your recipes automatically into styles, rather than just having "Added" and "Other". Makes finding specific recipes a lot easier.
Oh man, I love the Batches feature and one of the key reasons I migrated from BeerSmith. Recipes are eternally tweaked for different hops year/AA, different base malts, etc. The Batches feature, with it's own recipe copy, brewing and fermentation notes is great. As an aside, my first brewing software was the iBrewmaster V2 app, which used a batches feature... batches was sorely missed when I eventually "upgraded" to Beersmith from that.
Batches is one of the greatest features. It's like your own personal brewing log and for everything you've brewed you can see what you tweaked, add notes and learn as you go.
@@godottt It's not the same. Beersmith stores everything in the recipe and then you copy/version the recipe. For starters, in BF I could have the same recipe and never have to change it, and then brew X number of batches each with its various brew session data points. Beersmith, I have X recipes stored. Yes, eod of the day, you would have the same data, but IMO it more logically organized with distinct "batch" entries.
@@FermentationAdventures Well, to each their own. I used BF for a year before switching to Beersmith. I see very little practical difference in the application of this feature - definitely not enough to compel anyone to switch either way.
I used to use Imperial yeast exclusively. Loved it. Still do but I can't get it locally anymore. One shop owner said that Imperial has increased the minimum amount that they must buy and their sales volume on yeast is not high enough to justify buying in the new larger minimums. That policy has affected ALL of my LHBS's and as a result... no one stocks Imperial anymore. I've switched to Omega. BTW, after watching the whole video and playing around with Brewfather I don't see that this software does anything that Beersmith doesn't. Only the interface look and feel is different. The profiles, the tools, the water adjustment, etc. are all the same.
I've used brewfather for 3 years and love it. The only issue I've found is that pH adjustment is wildly off (Bru'n water is spot on). I'm really looking forward to when you get to water so I can hopefully pick up on something to get a more accurate pH.
Honestly between becoming a Brewfather user this year and switching all of my recipes to grams and kilograms, planning and measuring for brew days has gotten so much simpler edit: also using degrees Celcius is so much easier!
You downplay it, but the batches tab is one of the more powerful features of Brewfather. Running a recipe through as a batch is the only way to automatically have ingredients removed from inventory. Also, when pairing Brewfather with a Tilt, your fermentation statistics are logged into your batch, and you also get fermentation notifications.
First of all, thank you very much for a great video, going through Brewfather step by step, is very appreciated for many of us newbie brewers, in the next video, could you take some time explain especially yeast pitch rates? yeast starter using dry rehydrated yeast etc? When you are coming through that topic in Planning
Brew father and the use of water chemistry upped my quality 100% hands down. New Brewers quit prematurely cuz their beer sucks. Put in the effort you won't be sorry..
I used Brewfather for one year but switched back to Beersmith. There's nothing in Brewfather that Beersmith doesn't do (including water adjustments, which you imply it doesn't). The advantage Beersmith has over Brewfather is that you can buy a one time licence (for about the same price as one year of Brewfather) and use it forever. I hate reoccurring monthly fees and I don't need or want another one.
Brewfather App is still very buggy. I have issues with water calculations not up dating, sometimes the App change all the ingredients to the same ingredient and can't be undone, plus a few others. Not something I will pay for, but it's an excellent tool that's still in development.
Great video. I think an over emphasis on water chemistry is not overly helpful for beginners as it can be daunting to many. Focusing so much on it here might cause people to avoid the hobby as it would be perceived as "overly complicated". That being said, Brewfather makes water chemistry and absolute breeze.
I give it a shot however, I will say this with Beer Smith, I refuse to do their subscription service. Its $25 a year for for Brewfather's Premium service... No.
There has been a misunderstanding among many homebrewers looking into Beersmith that you have to have a subscription to use it and that is not true. There is a basic level that is free.
Objection Objection!
How could you not spend time on the brewtimers, it is one of the amazing things that hooked me on Brewfather.
I am fortunate enough to have friends including my back yard neighbor to brew with. We get the tunes going and make a day of it. It is great to have alarms go off allowing me not to pay attention to the clock. But wait those timers do not end with brew day. At a minimum it will remind you via push notifications when bottling day is but that is easy enough. Let us throw into the mix steps involved with fermentation ranging from temp adjustments to dry hops and any other thing you might do. It is great to get these push notifications on your phone and email.
To skim over this as if it were nothing is truly an injustice to the power built into the timer.
Been a Brewfather user for a few years and never looked back. Well worth it in my opinion. The more you put into it, the more you get out of it. I'm sure I'll learn a lot as the series moves forward.
Thanks for doing these videos!
Ive only been brewing for about 4 months and have been using beersmith the whole time. Im not sure if beersmith has recently added these same features but to me the brewfather seems the same as beersmith. All the same features. Ive been told by lots of people to get into brewfather but wondering if its just a new shiny piece of equipment, Ive noticed that new equipment thats shiny gets lots of homebrews excited to get it even if they already had the same thing previously.
Awesome video thanks, love the ending 😆🍻
Since you're here, I see $25 a year for premium service, but I don't see anything else. After the 30day free trail what do you or don't you get?
@@mrow7598he software is free to use with some limits to the functions.
@@mrow7598 you still get all the features, but you're limited to 10 batches I believe. If you exceed this during your trial, at the end of the 30 days your account becomes "read-only" until you delete to get below the 10 recipe limit again.
@@nextech5321 You don't necessarily lose your recipes. You can export them and save on your computer, then delete from cloud Brewfather. Later, you can upload yur offline saved recipe (as long as you remain below the 10 recipe limit).
@@robertpurrenhage1400 never said you lose them. You just can't create anything OR brew any new batches until you delete recipes from the cloud.
Really looking forward to this series!
So glad these series is happening. Brian at short circuited brewers covered a lot and it help me. Hope these series expands on that.
Used Brewfather since the beta. Two words - LOVE IT! The integrations are the icing on the cake!
Same here. It is just leaps above anything else on the market and Thomas from @brewfather is very keen on doing improvements.
I mainly interface it with the RAPT line of products from kegland.
Quick recipe tip - the first tag you add is used to sort them. So you can add a style tag on the recipe, and sort your recipes automatically into styles, rather than just having "Added" and "Other". Makes finding specific recipes a lot easier.
By sort I mean.. categorise? Wish I could add a screenshot :D
'if you're in Europe and use Celsius etc' you mean 'if you're literally anywhere else in the world'
Amen
Yes. That is what we mean.
Also a legacy beersmith user, I really should look into this more
I'm surprised. I kinda pictured you with a bunch of IoT devices reporting in to Brewfather on every aspect of fermentation :-)
Been using brewfather for ages and always something new. Keep these up, greatly video
Did you got the Flameout hop additions and IBU calculations working. Cuzz Brewfather does not calculate anything.
Great video and loved the ending! Haha nice one Brian @ Short Circuited Brewers! I've been using Brewfather for a couple of years now and loving it!
Oh man, I love the Batches feature and one of the key reasons I migrated from BeerSmith. Recipes are eternally tweaked for different hops year/AA, different base malts, etc. The Batches feature, with it's own recipe copy, brewing and fermentation notes is great.
As an aside, my first brewing software was the iBrewmaster V2 app, which used a batches feature... batches was sorely missed when I eventually "upgraded" to Beersmith from that.
Batches is one of the greatest features. It's like your own personal brewing log and for everything you've brewed you can see what you tweaked, add notes and learn as you go.
Ummm... Beersmith also has a batch feature; it's just that it is called the Brew Log Feature
@@godottt It's not the same. Beersmith stores everything in the recipe and then you copy/version the recipe. For starters, in BF I could have the same recipe and never have to change it, and then brew X number of batches each with its various brew session data points. Beersmith, I have X recipes stored. Yes, eod of the day, you would have the same data, but IMO it more logically organized with distinct "batch" entries.
@@FermentationAdventures Well, to each their own. I used BF for a year before switching to Beersmith. I see very little practical difference in the application of this feature - definitely not enough to compel anyone to switch either way.
Would be great if there was a specific setting for distillation mashes.
I used to use Imperial yeast exclusively. Loved it. Still do but I can't get it locally anymore. One shop owner said that Imperial has increased the minimum amount that they must buy and their sales volume on yeast is not high enough to justify buying in the new larger minimums. That policy has affected ALL of my LHBS's and as a result... no one stocks Imperial anymore. I've switched to Omega.
BTW, after watching the whole video and playing around with Brewfather I don't see that this software does anything that Beersmith doesn't. Only the interface look and feel is different. The profiles, the tools, the water adjustment, etc. are all the same.
I've used brewfather for 3 years and love it. The only issue I've found is that pH adjustment is wildly off (Bru'n water is spot on). I'm really looking forward to when you get to water so I can hopefully pick up on something to get a more accurate pH.
20:05 isn't water boil off rate generally 2.8L/hour - 3.0L/hour, for his profile it's only 0.5gal/hour which translate to 1.9L/hour
Honestly between becoming a Brewfather user this year and switching all of my recipes to grams and kilograms, planning and measuring for brew days has gotten so much simpler
edit: also using degrees Celcius is so much easier!
What's a kilogram? :-)
@@TheBrulosophyShow don't worry. One day you'll catch up with the rest of us! It's Martin I feel sorry for. He's had to go the other way!
You downplay it, but the batches tab is one of the more powerful features of Brewfather. Running a recipe through as a batch is the only way to automatically have ingredients removed from inventory. Also, when pairing Brewfather with a Tilt, your fermentation statistics are logged into your batch, and you also get fermentation notifications.
Better late than never 🍻🍻
Hey hey good to see ya Ryan!!!!
Yeah, they don't sell Imperial Yeast in Australia, so we'll be using starters for all the strains we can't get dried.
Yeah we have Metric Yeast.😉
Batches are also useful if you tweak you recipe to fit the inventory :-)
First of all, thank you very much for a great video, going through Brewfather step by step, is very appreciated for many of us newbie brewers, in the next video, could you take some time explain especially yeast pitch rates? yeast starter using dry rehydrated yeast etc? When you are coming through that topic in Planning
Brew father and the use of water chemistry upped my quality 100% hands down. New Brewers quit prematurely cuz their beer sucks. Put in the effort you won't be sorry..
Agree, so far my favorite recipe feature is the water profile magic wand!
@@TheBrulosophyShow ???
Will it export and or connect to Grainfather? Thanks
I used Brewfather for one year but switched back to Beersmith. There's nothing in Brewfather that Beersmith doesn't do (including water adjustments, which you imply it doesn't). The advantage Beersmith has over Brewfather is that you can buy a one time licence (for about the same price as one year of Brewfather) and use it forever. I hate reoccurring monthly fees and I don't need or want another one.
When can we expect the follow up to this video?
We’ve shot Part 2 and it’ll be up in a couple of weeks.
Surprised you didn't mention the benefits of paid vs standard levels for BF
Will there be more Brewfather episodes added? This was awesome!
Brewfather App is still very buggy. I have issues with water calculations not up dating, sometimes the App change all the ingredients to the same ingredient and can't be undone, plus a few others. Not something I will pay for, but it's an excellent tool that's still in development.
How does this software compare to the Grainfather software?
It's much nicer, Grainfather device bluetooth connectivity is still in development (beta) but it does work
Great video. I think an over emphasis on water chemistry is not overly helpful for beginners as it can be daunting to many. Focusing so much on it here might cause people to avoid the hobby as it would be perceived as "overly complicated".
That being said, Brewfather makes water chemistry and absolute breeze.
at last a brewfather series
I find the constant shilling for Imperial Yeast to be tiring.
Rest in peace Beersmith after this video
🤣🤣💀 @Short Circuit
👍🍻😁
I give it a shot however, I will say this with Beer Smith, I refuse to do their subscription service. Its $25 a year for for Brewfather's Premium service... No.
The free version is very generous, give it a shot!
There has been a misunderstanding among many homebrewers looking into Beersmith that you have to have a subscription to use it and that is not true. There is a basic level that is free.